Resources

A visual summary of the Mental Health Report: 'Transforming Lives, Enhancing Communities' that was launched at the Qatar Foundation's World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha in December 2013.

Democratising Mental Health is a short documentary film (9 mins) set in Nepal told from a patient perspective

Great overview of mental health care in England by The King's Fund.

Systematic review on published literature on interventions to train health-care workers in Africa on mental health

A MHIN review summary for the review entitled "Estimating the coverage of mental health programmes: a systematic review" (De Silva et al, 2014).

A MHIN summary for a systematic review on: 'The Acceptability and Feasibility of Task-Sharing for Mental Healthcare in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review' (Padmanathan and De Silva, 2013).

PRIME Ethiopia's implementation of mhGAP - a brief documentary

A book on a project that highlights how psychosocial project delivery in a post-conflict country incorporates relational understandings in its training of mental health workers

Systematic review of the evidence on the reliability and validity of instruments to assess perinatal depression in African settings.

A systematic review on the evidence about the impact of community-based rehabilitation on the lives of people with disabilities and their carers in LAMIC.

These guidelines are designed to help members of the public in India to provide first aid to someone who is at risk of suicide. The role of the first aider is to assist the person until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves.

These guidelines are designed to help members of the public in the Philippines to provide first aid to someone who is at risk of suicide. The role of the first aider is to assist the person until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves.